It all starts with the wig, Matt Damon says. He was conscious that he was 20 years older than Scott Thorson, the young man with fluffy blond hair whose long affair with ’60s showman Liberace is the subject of Behind the Candelabra.
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Into the River named top read at awards
A young adult novel about a dramatic journey that transforms an East Coast boy has taken out this year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards tonight. Ted Dawe’s
The best non fiction kids’ books
While a high-calibre jury of writers and critics ponders the nominees for this year’s Children’s Book Awards, we have asked the true experts. So far we have heard our reviewers’ opinions about the nominees in the categories Picture Books and Junior Fiction
Too cute: Kids reviewing books
While a high-calibre jury of writers and critics ponders the nominees for this year’s Children’s Book Awards, we have asked the true experts.
Not enough heroes for girls in kids books
There is a ‘girl power’ void in new books for Kiwi kids, according to judges on a children’s book awards panel. Finalists for The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards were released this morning, with 19 books picked out of hundreds to contend for awards across four categories.
Not enough heros for girls in kids books
There is a ‘girl power’ void in new books for Kiwi kids, according to judges on a children’s book awards panel.
What Does It Mean to Be 13?
What does it mean to be 13, backstage adults, watching on tiptoe, waiting to go onstage? Some things about this age of change are unchanging
Pay for Grades: Should Parents Bribe Kids in School?
In junior high school, one of my classmates had a TV addiction — back before it was normal.